shintakezou

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by shintakezou 3y ago
It will be just a different world. Maybe not for humans (and certain aquatic life), but there are a lot of ways and life will find a way. If not now, then — sooner or later.
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by shintakezou 4y ago
I "love" computer language criticisms, even though I don't believe neither that the perfect language can exist nor that a language can fit all the needs. Anyhow, here I didn't get what's wrong with some of the &quot
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by shintakezou 5y ago
Which makes no sense, but it is on the path towards the aim, that is, total submission of the "servers", one small step a time
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by shintakezou 6y ago
It seems something like a trojan horse in some core concept about freedom and privacy. It also helps, I am sure.
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by shintakezou 7y ago
> trying to minimise the maximum number of people infected at a time (to ensure that healthcare is still available to everybody that needs it). It is so, at least in Italy. Basically they told us the reason of these measure is to spread
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by shintakezou 7y ago
"Another kind of snake", you mean!
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by shintakezou 7y ago
What if it gives the survivors the strength to resist or fight back something else? If we think about it, human (and not human) very ancient history must be full of these interactions, and our evolution is a consequence also of this kind of
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by shintakezou 9y ago
Isn't it just a content container? I mean, saying "I avoid medium" sounds like saying "I avoid wordpress" or "I avoid blogspot", speaking of content quality and not look&feel. About this one, I'm
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by shintakezou 9y ago
The wording “X causes Y” is slippery. Saying “X increases the probability of Y”, is another thing. Thinking about smoke, with “smoke causes cancer” I expect every smoker to have cancer. It isn't so. If the effect of X on the probabilit
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by shintakezou 9y ago
> "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted." This one has serious implication, not only in the computer programming world, of course.
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by shintakezou 9y ago
Those things will find their way out… but the nuisance for common legitimate well-behaving users will be kept, likely.
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by shintakezou 9y ago
I suspected it was a tactic, too. I've simply complied, giving the number and then removing it (as I did for another account). Not an issue since these accounts were explicitly related, so I didn't care if Twitter could connect th
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by shintakezou 12y ago
And the fact you see assault, and a law teaches you that it is so, instead of just scolding, is a cultural bias (sort of) and a point in favor of not living in US - or similar countries - for anyone born and grown up where these deceptive c
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by shintakezou 12y ago
«From the police POV, a child was left alone in a vehicle that was later driven off by someone else». No "someone else", but the very same woman: leaving the car, returning back to the car. The same woman, not someone else. Unless
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by shintakezou 12y ago
«Because the person in the video doesn't match the description of the registered owner of the car as recorded on their driving license. Think about it.» First, you have to arrive to the cops checking for that. Before that, you must ima